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1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) : illustrations |
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Expert's voice in .NET |
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Expert's voice in .NET.
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| Contents |
At a Glance; Chapter 1: Why Application Lifecycle Management Matters; Responding to Change; Understanding the Cornerstones of Business; Processes; Business Rules; Information; Understanding the Need for Business Software; Today's Business Environment and the Problems We Face; Project Health Today: Three Criteria for Success; Project Delivered on Time; Project Delivered on Budget; Project Goal Fulfilled; Factors Influencing Projects and Their Success; The Gap between Business and IT; The Development Process-Or the Lack of One; Geographic Spread; Synchronization of Tools |
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Resource ManagementProject Size; Project Success: What Does the Research Say?; The Standish Report; Challenging the Report; Conclusions; Summary; Chapter 2: Introduction to Application Lifecycle Management; Aspects of the ALM Process; Four Ways of Looking at ALM; The SDLC View; The Service Management or Operations View; The Application Portfolio Management View; The Unified View; Three Pillars of Traditional Application Lifecycle Management; Traceability; Automation of High-Level Processes; Visibility into the Progress of Development Efforts; A Brief History of ALM Tools and Concepts |
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Application Lifecycle Management 1.0Application Lifecycle Management 2.0; Application Lifecycle Management 2.0+; DevOps; ALM and PPM; Summary; Chapter 3: Development Processes and Frameworks; The Waterfall Model; Spiral Model; Rational Unified Process (RUP); The Principles of RUP; The RUP Lifecycle; Inception Phase; Elaboration Phase; Construction Phase; Transition Phase; Disciplines in RUP; Business Modeling Discipline; Requirements Discipline; Analysis and Design Discipline; Implementation Discipline; Test Discipline; Deployment Discipline; Configuration and Change-Management Discipline |
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Project-Management DisciplineEnvironment Discipline; Work Products, Roles, and Tasks in RUP; RUP Benefits; Manifesto for Agile Software Development; Extreme Programming (XP); Scrum; Empirical Process Control; Complexity in Projects; What Scrum Is; Roles in Scrum; The Product Owner; The Team; The Scrum Master; The Scrum Process; The Kanban Method; Start With What You Do Now; Agree to Pursue Incremental, Evolutionary Change; Respect the Current Process, Roles, Responsibilities, and Titles; The Five Core Properties; Visualize the Workflow; Limit Work in Process (WIP); Manage Flow |
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Make Process Policies ExplicitImprove Collaboratively (Using Models and the Scientific Method); Common Models Used to Understand Work in Kanban; Choosing the Process; Summary; Chapter 4: Introduction to Scrum and Agile Concepts; The Scrum Process; Roles in Scrum; Product Owner; Scrum Master; The Development Team; Definition of Done; Agile Requirements and Estimation; Requirements; Estimation; Backlog; During the Sprint; Daily Stand-Up; Sprint Review; Sprint Retrospective; How Agile Maps to ALM; Agile Captures Task-Based Work; Increased Frequency of Inspection |
| Summary |
Beginning Application Lifecycle Management is a guide to an area of rapidly growing interest within the development community: managing the entire cycle of building software. ALM is an area that spans everything from requirements specifications to retirement of an IT-system or application. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of responsibility and across many different disciplines, the benefits and effects of ALM techniques used on your project can be wide-ranging and pronounced. In this book, author Joachim Rossberg will show you what ALM is and why it matters. He will also show you how you can assess your current situation and how you can use this assessment to create the road ahead for improving or implementing your own ALM process across all of your team's development efforts. Beginning Application Lifecycle Management can be implemented on any platform. This book will use Microsoft Team Foundation Server as a foundation in many examples, but the key elements are platform independent and you'll find the book written in a platform agnostic way. Inside this book, you will: Learn what application lifecycle management is, and why it matters. Understand the steps necessary for implementing an ALM process. Find tips and techniques you can use to gain control of your development efforts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 3, 2014) |
| Subject |
Application software -- Development -- Management
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
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Application software -- Development -- Management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781430258131 |
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1430258136 |
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